Новости за 13.05.2016

This situation could have easily gone wrong. An autistic North Carolina teen with a history of violent behavior, and whom school officials believed was also suicidal, left his school campus without permission. School officials immediately called the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, which dispatched Police Officer Tim Purdy.

The Florida state attorney’s election in the 4th Judicial Circuit has taken an unexpected twist, with the high-profile race, featuring the ever controversial Angela Corey as incumbent, suddenly becoming closed to non-Republican voters. 

It’s been a few weeks since Beyoncé turned the entire Internet into a collection of underqualified Easy Rawlinses­—theorizing, guessing, hypothesizing and attempting to deduce the identity of Becky With the Good Hair. (The verdict? Maybe it was Rachel Ray. Maybe it was a MacGuffin. And maybe it was just Beyoncé’s new way of saying Sasha Fierce.) This phenomenon led to a subconversation about the word “Becky”—what it means, where it comes from (the first line of “Baby Got Back”) and what it implies. Читать дальше...

A Clarksville, Ind., man reportedly on probation has been charged with making threats against presidential candidate Donald Trump, WLKY reports.

Former BET host and producer Jeff Johnson will be joining Democratic super PAC Priorities USA as a consultant, handling part of the group’s $5.3 million advertising budget focused on black and Hispanic markets, All Digitocracy reports. 

A user with the screen name "Racist McShootFace" has pushed the bidding for the firearm owned by George Zimmerman and used to kill unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., to $65 million, the Daily Mail reports.

Dear Professor Gates:

Scandal's season five finale kicks off with Jake Ballard calmly poisoning his new father-in-law. Now, if you watch enough Scandal, you'll start to become numb to murder. In fact, murder will start to seem like an obvious option. I can't count the number of times I've yelled at the screen, "Just kill him already!" Especially as it relates to Papa Pope. Seriously, why hasn't anyone pushed him off of a tall building yet? I digress. What I can't understand, however, is why, as his father-in-law was dying... Читать дальше...

Jasmine Warren wasn't going to let two armed men steal her car. As she walked out of an Atlanta Exxon gas station around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, two men wearing hoodies jumped out and attempted to take he car, but Warren fought back. At one point, one of the men pointed a gun at Warren and told her that he would shoot, but she kept fighting. In the end, the men fled, but Warren has a message for the two men who tried to steal her car: "I forgive them."

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, and the last living person born in the 1800s, died Thursday at the age of 116.

Over the weekend I swung by the 156 Art Fair, an annual exhibition of African art at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, N.Y. Among the many strong presentations on display, Phoebe Boswell’s Stranger in the Village stood out.

I’ve been to more concerts in my lifetime than I can remember. But I can tell you which were distinctly the best and worst that I’ve attended.